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LOT 1609
Stone Age Polished Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 5/8 in. (288 grams, 11.8 cm).
Highly polished with broad convex cutting edge, body tapering to a narrow square butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. MacGregor, A. ed., Antiquities From Europe and the Near East in the Collection of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, no.5.7, for similar form.
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Triangular in profile with ground hole below the apex; chipped. 256 grams, 10.2 cm
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